Combined spoon and clip



Dec. 16, 1930. F. PHILLIPSON 1,784,880

COMBINED SPOON AND CLIP Filed May 24, 1929 1 INVENTOR ii; q M

A'TTORNEY Patented Dec. 16, 1930 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE FEBDTNAND PHILLIPSON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

comma-1n srooir AND our Application filed May 24, 1929. Serial No. 365,652.

- measure the amount to be taken, by use of a teaspoon; and it frequentl occurs that there is no teaspoon at hand: f one is at home, it will not ordinarily involve much trouble to get ateaspoon, but in travelling it is difiicult to get a spoon when needed and it is extremely inconvenient and really impracticable to carry an ordinary spoon for meeting such emergencies. It has been proposed heretofore, as disclosed in my Patent No. 1,706,815, March 26, 1929, tomeet such difiiculties by providing unitary or integral devices including bottle caps and spoon bowlsconnected therewith. It will be evident that it would be necessary to manufacture as many different forms of these devices as required for the diiferent sizes of bottle necks and for the different forms of cap fastening means used.

An important object of the present invention is to provide devices, which meet the re quirements specified, are simple and economical to manufacture, and are adapted for use with bottle caps of substantially all forms and all diameters in ordinary use. --Another object of the invention is to provide a spoon or spoon bowl provided with attaching means adapted to be applied to a bottle cap. A further object is to provide a combined spoon or spoon bowl and spring clip adapted to cooperate with dilferent kinds and sizes of caps. Other features and advantages will appear upon consideration of the following description and of the drawings in which:

Fig. 1 is aview in elevationof a preferred embodiment of the invention illustrating the manner in which it is applied to a bottle cap and a bottle;

Fig. 2 is a view in elevation, looking from the right in Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a perspective'view of a modified form of the invention, illustrating it' as applied to a bottle cap having a projecting lower edge, and in a form in which the con cave side of the bowl is at the inside; and

Fig. 4 is a view, similar to Fig. 3, of another form of the invention in which the concave side of the bowl is at the outside. Y

The objects of the invention are, in general,

attained by providing a .spoon bowl fixedly attached at one endto a spring clip in the general form of a split ring adapted to embrace bottle caps of various diameters. Preferably the clips are made of springs in the form of flat strips, but for some purposes may be made of round material such as wire. The

feature of having the spoon attached to a spring clip rather than to the cap directly has various advantages. For example, the spoon and clip arrangement is more economical to manufacture so that it can be produced on a commercial basis, the clip cannothold.

liquid whereas the cap in a cup and spoon arrangement is likely to contain liquid when removed from the bottle, and the clip forms a better handle.

Referring to the drawings in which similar numerals referto similar parts throughoutthe several views, 10 indicates a spoon or' spoon bowl of suitable material such as metal, having at its rear end an extension 11 connecting the bowl with a spring clip 12 in the form of a split ring. As here illustrated the spring clip 12 is made of flat strip material, such as metal. Although the combined spoon and clip may be made from one piece 0 combined device from two separate pieces of material secured together in any suitable manner, as by spot welding. It is also referred to have the metal in the port-ion o the extension 11 between the spoon and the clip in such condition that, when bent into any required form, it will retain that form, thus enabling the spoon bowl to be'adjusted to any clip.

The spring clip 11 is adapted to cooperate with any of the well'known forms of bottle caps and, as shown in Fig. 1, is applied to a bottle cap 13 which is provided at its lower edge with cam or partial screw devices 14 formed from the metal of the peripheral wall metal, it is preferable to make the 25 the caps are attached and detached conand adapted to engage the lower edges of lugs or projections 15 on the neck 16 of a bottle 17 the cap vbeing locked on the neck by a artial turn in one direction and being re eased by a partial turn in the opplsite direction. Caps of this kind are usua provided with corrugations (not shown aving crests and troughs extending from top to bottom of the perlpheral walls of said caps. Althou h the spoon bowl is shown as positioned at t e narrow face or edge of the ottle, it should be understood that it may also be positioned at one of the broad faces or sides of the bottle.

In In Fig. 3, there is illustrated a modified form of the device in which the spring clip 12a is formed of round materia, such as wire. These clips ma not be so well ada ted for use with caps, suc as illustrated in igs.

1 and 2, but are especially adapted for use with caps 13a having annular projections or beads 18 extendin outwardly at the lower edges of the caps. aps of this form are usually provided with screw threads such that tinuous turning in one direction or opposite. V The modified form illustrated in Fig. 4 differs from that illustrated in Fig. 3 only 3 by the arrangement of the spoon bowl so as to have its concave side face outwardly when ap lied to a bottle. In this connection it should be understood that, in the form of the invention shown in Fi 1 and 2, the spoon bowl may be arrange with reference 'to the clip so t at its concave side will face outwardly when the device is applied to a bottle.

The foregoing detailed description has 4 been given for clearness of understandin and no undue limitation should be deduce therefrom, but the appended claim should be construed as broadly as possible in view of the prior art.

Having thus described my invention I claim:

A medicine spoon or the like, havin a bowl portion to which is fiixed an expansifile, sprm chp member, the clip being openende whereby it may be snapped into and out of engagement with bottle necks of various slzes, the bowl portion extending at nearly a right angle to the plane of the clip, where the bowl portion will lie close to the neo of the bottle when in enga ement therewith, and so be out of the way, 1; e clip servlng as a handle for the spoon when out of engagement with the bottle, the entire artlcle bemg stamped out of sheet metal.

m In witness whereof, I aflix my signature.

FERDINAND PHILLIPSON. 

